Edd Winfield Parks

Edd Winfield Parks (February 25, 1906 – May 7, 1968) was an American educator and writer.

Biography Parks was born in Newbern, Tennessee, the son of Edward Winfield and Emma Parks. He was educated at Harvard University and attained his Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University in 1929. From 1923 to 1924, and again in 1931, he was a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He married Aileen Wells on November 3, 1933. Aileen was a writer of juvenile fiction.

He began his teaching career at Vanderbilt University (1929–1933) and taught at Cumberland University (1933–1935)

Parks was president of a number of professional organizations, including the Southern Atlantic Modern Language Association (1958–1959) and the Southeastern American Studies Association (1961–1962). He was chairman of the Southern Humanities Conference (1962–1963). He was on the editorial boards of the Georgia Review, the American Quarterly, and the Mississippi Quarterly.